Sack



Sept. 8, 1925.

1 w. B. HICKEY SACK Filed Jan. 5.

' INVENTOR m m m T A Pa tente cl Sept. 8, 1925.

UNITED STATES WILLIAM B. HIGKEY, OF SAPULIA, OKLAHOMA.

SACK.

Application filed January 5, 1924. Serial No. 684,614.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM B. HIGKEY, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Sapulpa, in the county of Greek and State of Oklahoma, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sacks, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in sacks and more particularly to improvements in sacks for the use of cotton pickers, and it consists in the combinations, constructions and arrangements herein described, and claimed.

An object of the invention is to provide a sack of the character described which comprises butrelatively few parts and can be manufactured at a relatively low cost, which ;will last a relatively long time in service and which is adapted to be manipulated. conveniently and easily by the user without causing chafing of the body of the user.

A further object is toprovide a sack of the character described which is reversible end for end and which is adapted at its opposite ends to be detachably secured at various circumferentially spaced points to the opposite end portions of a supporting strap, whereby the sack may be shifted so that the wear on the portion thereof which is dragged on the ground is shifted circumferentially.

A further object of the invention is to provide a sack of the character described in which the means for closing the sack at one end and whereby the sack may be attached at its opposite end toa supporting strap also provides means whereby the sack can be suspended at its opposite ends from the hooks of scales such as are ordinarily provided for weighing the sack and the contents thereof.

Other objects and advantages will be apparent from the following description, con sidered in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view showing a sack embodying the invention in use,

Figure 2 is a perspective view showing the sack suspended from scales,

Figure 3 is a perspective view of the sack,

Figure 4 is a plan view showing the sack laid out flat,

Figures 5 and 6 respectively are a perspective view of a hook for adjustably connecting an end portion of a. supporting strap with an end portion of the sack and a perspective' view of a second hook for connecting the secondend of the supporting strap to the sack. V

A sack embodying the invention comprises a body 1 which is substantially cylindrical when in distended position and which may be of any desired length and be formed of any suitable material, such as canvas, duck or like fabric. The body 1 is open at its opposite ends and may be reinforced at its opposite ends by hems 2. The hem portions of the body are provided with series of spaced apart eyelets 3 which extend circumferentially of the body. A draw string 4: may be threaded through the eyelets 3 at either of the opposite ends of the body and this draw string may be manipulated and the end portions thereof tied together in'an obvious manner to close the body 1 at one of its ends.

A strap 5 for supporting the body 1 from the shoulder of the user is provided adjacent one of its ends with an eyelet 6 and the other end portion of the strap is provided with a series of spaced apart eyelets'T. A hook 8 which has a loop portion 9 engaged with the eyelet 6 is engageable with any one of the eyelets 3 at the end of the body 1 which has not been closed by the string 4. A double hook 10 has similar end portions 11, one of which is engageable with any one of the eyelets 7and the other of which is engagea'ble with any one of the eyelets 3 at the open end of the body 1, whereby the strap 5 will be attached at its opposite ends to the body 1. The arrangement is such that the distance between the points of attachment of the two ends of the strap 5 to the open end portion of the body 1 may be varied, either or both of the points of attachment of the ends of the strap 5 to an end portion of the body 1 may be shifted circumferentially of the end portion of the body, and the strap 4 is adjustable as to size.

From the foregoing description of the various parts of the device, the operation thereof may be readily understood. When the hook members carried by the end por tions of the supporting strap 5 are engaged with eyelets 3 which are spaced apart approximately one-third of the circumference of the body and are located at either of the ends of the body, the body 1 will remain open at its upper end when the supporting strap 5 is supported upon the shoulder of a user as illustrated in Figure 1, the open upper end of the body 1 then being sub stantially D-shaped in cross sectional contour. Therefore cotton which has been picked by either hand of the user will be deposited in the sack when the hand has been swung toward the body to position above the open end of the sack and the cotton then dropped. Since the hook members carried by the end portions of the supporting strap can be engaged with the eyelets 3 at either of the opposite ends of the body 1, the body 1 may be reversed end for end so that the wear thereon when the sack is dragged along in the usual manner will be distributed over a relatively large portion of the sack surface. This is particularly true for the reason that the hooks carried by the supporting strap can be engaged with the various eyelets at the opposite ends of the body selectively to effect what may be considered a rotary movement of the sack about its longitudinal axis so that different portions of the circumference of the sack will drag on the ground at different times. It of course will be understood that in each instance of use, the end of the body 1 which has not been attached to the supporting strap 5 will b closed by the draw string 4. This string may be drawn tight until the puckered end portion of the bag has been drawn to position to extend substantially at right angles to the longitudinal axis of the body, thus permitting cotton to be packed into the body 1 to the extreme lower end thereof. The contents of the body 1 may be discharged therefrom either from the open upper end of the body or the draw string 1. may be loosened or completely removed to permit the discharge of the contents from the normally closed lower end.

Another important advantage of the invention is gained because of the ease with which the filled sack can be attached at both of its opposite ends to the hook 12 of scales 13 so that the sack will swing clear of a floor or like surface over which the hook is suspended. The scales hook 12 can be inserted through one of the eyelets of the open upper end of the sack and then engaged with the portion of the draw string 4 which extends between any two adjacent eyelets at the closed end of the sack and the sack then will hang in doubled position from the scales hook. This method of attaching the scales hook to the sack does not cause any undue stress on any port-ion of th sack and does not require the provision of any additional parts beyond those which would otherwise be comprised in the sack. Sacks of ordinary construction, of which I am aware, must have attaching strips or tabs at the closed ends thereof for engaging with the scales hook and the stress placed on the sack when said attaching portion is engaged with a scales hook tends to cause a rupture of the sack body at the juncture of the attaching portion and the sack body.

I am aware that sacks hav been provided which are reversible end for end but I am not aware of any sack provided prior to my invention which is reversible end for end and also rotatably shiftable about a longitudinal axis and which comprises so few parts as my improved sack.

Obviously, my invention is susceptible of embodiment in forms other than that illustrated in the accompanying drawings and I therefore consider as my own all modifications and adaptations of the form of the device herein described which fairly fall within the scope of the appended claims.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim is 1. A sack of the character described comprising an elongated body open at each of its opposite ends, and provided adjacent to each of its opposite ends with a circumferentially extending series of openings in the form of eyelets in the body of the sack, a supporting strap having end portions thereof provided with attaching elements, each of said attaching elements being adapted to engage with any one of the eyelets and one of the attaching elements being adjustably engageable with the strap, and a string threaded through the eyelets at the free end of th body, the ends of the string being tied together.

2. A sack of the character described comprising an elongated flexible body open at each of its opposite-ends, said body being provided adjacent to each of its opposite ends with a circumferentially extending series of spaced apart eyelets which are pro vided in the body itself, a supporting strap having one end portion thereof provided with an eyelet adjacent to its extremity and having the other end portion thereof provided with a series of spaced apart eyelets, a hook attached to the eyelet in the first named end portion of said strap and having a bill portion engageable with any one of the eyelets at either of the opposite ends of said sack body, a double hook member hav- 'ing a bill portion at one end engageable with any one of the eyelets of the second named end portion of said strap having an other bill portion at its opposite end engageable with any one of the eyelets at the adjacent end of said sack body, and a flexible puckering member adapted to be threaded through the eyelets at the free end of said sack body to effect closing of the sack body at it-sfree end. l/VILLIAM B. HICKEY. 

